Awkward Moments You Missed From the COP29 Summit in Azerbaijan

This year’s COP29 summit in Baku brought together global leaders to discuss the growing threat of climate change. Or at least, it brought some of them together. The leaders of the world’s top 13 carbon polluting countries didn’t show up.

Along with forced smiles and firm handshakes, there were plenty of awkward moments.
The leader of Poland, Andrzej Duda, skipped the official class photo, due to the presence of Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko - one of Russia’s staunchest allies.

Some criticised the choice of Azerbaijan as the host nation, which has been accused of detaining environmental campaigners, while President Ilham Aliyev described oil and gas as 'gifts from god'.

In fact, fossil fuel lobbyists appear to have been welcome at the conference.

And Elnur Soltanov, CEO of the COP29 team, was secretly filmed by the BBC, facilitating a fossil fuels deal on the sidelines of the summit.

Despite much talk on plans to tax harmful meat consumption, there were plenty of meat options on the menu for COP delegates.

It's all led to some sharp criticism of COP29, including from Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus.

While there were surprise appearances to speak of, including football icon Ronaldinho…
…it's hard to overlook the absence of leading figures from China, the USA, India and Brazil.

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